Women’s Initiatives

DON’T LET YOUR WOMEN’S INITIATIVE BECOME A WAY TO DISEMPOWER YOUR FIRM’S WOMEN

All too often, organizational leaders agree to the formation of a women’s initiative that is really only an opportunity for women to talk to one another – not a way to produce genuine and effective opportunities for women to advance.

For a women’s initiative to be effective it must:

Have clear, realistic goals and strategies for accomplishing them

Have buy-in and support from the top

Have the involvement of key stakeholders, including men

Have a significant budget

Have an agenda derived from the identified needs of the firm’s women

Be aligned with the firm’s strategic goals

Have metrics to assess its effectiveness

Advance women into positions of firm leadership

Reduce the gender pay gap

We work with legal organizations to:

Assess the need for and goals of a women’s initiative

Involve key stakeholders in the creation and implementation of the initiative

Design the initiative so that it is aligned with the firm’s strategic business goals

Identify skill-focused and systems-focused interventions

Coach the leaders of the initiative to be optimally effective as leaders

Develop programming that advances women

Measure outcomes

A women’s initiative needs to be more than an opportunity for women to discuss obstacles. It needs to provide solutions that enable women to overcome those obstacles.

Please contact Ellen to discuss how we can help you make your firm’s women’s initiative produce authentic change.